NERI

the nature of essence
by Massimo Scaringella
«The mystery of artistic creation is the same as that of birth. A woman who loves may
desire to become a mother; but the desire by itself, however intense, cannot suffice.
One fine day she will find herself a mother without having any precise intimation when
it began. In the same way an artist imbibes very many germs of life and can never say
how and why, at a certain moment, one of these vital germs inserts itself into his fantasy,
there to become a living creature on a plane of life superior to the changeable existence
of every day».
Six characters in search of an author
Luigi Pirandello
As Pirandello suggests, artists have always had
the right to live, build or create according to their
personal story and/or imagination or to their often
ascertained duality. Their legitimization derives
from always being free spirits for whom the basis of aesthetic
survival is a “research” and not a practical result. It’s for this
reason that artists who conceive, risk and assume this reality,
(at times physical) couldn’t care less about the passing of
time. But generally speaking, they demand for their works
of art an impact of success, emotion and intimacy that
puts all those who come into contact with their works, both
personally or via other means of diffusion, in a metaphoric
or analogical symbiosis of dialogue. A picture, a painting or
any substantial creative production is not an object to look at,
but something with which one can see. In fact, aesthetics by
nature tends to explore the possible ways of constructing and
establishing human relations and relations between ideas in
new terms. Art represents an expression of the rebellion of
human thought, transforming the artist into a researcher of
form. And the form is structure, meaning that it represents
what can be transformed into something that apparently lives
in a restrictive cage, but basically always has a rebellious
soul. Even the most colorful and open work of art manages
to define and limit its themes, feelings and various passions,
frustrating innovation and constant genesis of its creative
poetry, its open language. But in reality the true work of an
artist covers minimal variations, almost imperceptible, a sort
of conceptual in-depth study that increasingly leads towards
the essentiality of things. And that is why what has been
represented deserves great attention because of its reasons
and its being. Of course, a work of art is almost invariably
a container of forces and tensions that can only be calmed
thanks to the open contact of those who observe the artist’s
enchantment and restlessness. Each mechanism of the
articulated creative structure builds, through the differences
of materials and color, a strong evocative and emotional
association that allows us to go beyond the image of the work
itself. This is the structure that the artist develops and this
form lives both objectively and theoretically and opens up
to the viewer with the fascination of a balanced world of an
art that is at the same time emotion and archetypal desire.
If one manages to enter the different mechanisms within
which the work of art operates, a new method of thinking is
acquired, which, beyond the external cognitive perception in
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